English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 16

Meanwhile Madge Magpie went on working and working without, looking up till the only bird that remained was the turtle-dove, and that hadn't paid any attention all along, but only kept on saying its silly cry “Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o.”

Who acts: Madge, only bird, working, attention · What happens: go, work, look up, remain, be, not pay · To what, where: turtle dove, that, silly cry, two · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Magpie's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madge, only bird, working, attention), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	Madge	Madge	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
3	Magpie	Magpie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Madge	flat
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 working	mark
6	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 dove	csubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 working	cc
8	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 working	conj
9	without	without	ADP	_	8 working	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looking	punct
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 dove	csubj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 looking	compound:prt
13	till	till	ADP	_	16 bird	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
15	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bird	amod
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looking	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 remained	nsubj
18	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bird	acl:relcl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dove	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dove	det
21	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dove	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 turtle	punct
23	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 paid	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 paid	cc
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 paid	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 paid	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 paid	advmod
29	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 dove	parataxis
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 attention	det
31	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 paid	obj
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 along	advmod
33	along	along	ADV	_	29 paid	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 kept	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 kept	cc
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 kept	advmod
37	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	parataxis
38	on	on	SCONJ	_	39 saying	mark
39	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 kept	advcl
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 cry	nmod:poss
41	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 cry	amod
42	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 saying	obj
43	“	"	PUNCT	_	44 Take	punct
44	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 saying	ccomp
45	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 Take	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Taffy	punct
47	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Take	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 take	punct
49	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 Take	conj
50	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 o	nummod
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 o	punct
52	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	56 o	case
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 o	punct
54	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	56 o	case
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 o	punct
56	o	o	INTJ	_	49 take	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Madge			meanwhile property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	work	gerund					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	work	gerund					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look up	gerund			till the only bird		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	remain	past	the only bird				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past	working	the turtle dove			tree rules
7	not pay	past · perfect · passive		that		along property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient attention=Asset
8	keep	participle					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	say speech: assert	gerund		attention's silly cry			tree rules
10	take in a quote	infinitive		two		Taffy obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme
11	take in a quote	infinitive					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent o=Theme
12	cry		attention				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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